Combined freight and dumping car



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UOMBINED FREIGHT" AND DUMPING GAR.

N0. 559,222. Patented'Apr. 28, 1896.

Witnesses ANDREW. .BRAHNL PHUTOUTHQWASMINGTUN. QC

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H. J. sCH'lvI-ICK. COMBINED-FREIGHT AND DUMPING OAR.

No.559,222. `1 @|.1;ent@aApr.28,1896.`

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ANDREW BLRHAM. FHUTOMTMO. WASHINGTUILDC UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE. f

I-IENRY J. SOIIMICK, OF HAMBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- EIGI'ITHS TO FRANK R. /VAGNER, OF SAME PLACE, AND JOHN M. KU'IZ, OF MAI'IANOY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED FREIGHT AND DUIVIPING` CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters `Patent No. 559,222, dated April 28, 1896.

Application filed May 3, 1895. Serial No. 548,052. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: gage with the toothed wheels ff', mounted Be it known that I, I-IENRY J. SCHMICK, a on studs projecting from plates E, secured in citizen of the United States, and a resident of the present instance to each side of the body Hamburg, Berks county, Pennsylvania, have of the car.

5 invented certain Improvements in a Com- A pinion g on each end of a shaft G meshes 55 bined Freight and Coal Car, of which the folwith the toothed wheel f at each side of the lowing is a specification. car, so that on turning the shaft by a crank The object of my invention is to construct handle or wheel the toothed wheels f f are a `freight-car with a movable bottom in such turned, imparting motion to the racks.

ro a manner that it can be used for carrying coal Vhen the shaft G is turned in one direc- 6o or other granular material in the same mantion, the pivoted sections D D are moved ner as an ordinary hopper-bottom coal-car from the position shown in full lines, Fig. 2, and can also be used as a flat-car for carrying to that shown in dotted lines in said figure, merchandise. This object I attain in the folso that if the car is loaded with coal it will 15 lowing manner, reference being had to the acdischarge the same from the bottom of the 6 5 companying drawings, in whichcar at the center between the trucks the Figure l is a side view of my improved `same as an ordinary hopper-bottom coal-car. freight-car. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal sectional By reversing the movement of the shaft Gr view. Fig. 3 isaplan view. Fig. 4 isatranseach section can be returned to its normal 2o verse sectional view. Fig. 5 is a perspective position and locked by the pawl g', which en- 7o view of one of the pivoted sections. Figs. 6 gages the pinion g or a ratchet-wheel on the and 7 are views of details of the operating shaft G, as the ease may be. In the present mechanism. instance the shaft G extends across the car A is the body of the car, mounted, as usual, under a strip A2, forming a part of the perp 2 5 on trucks B B. The body (shown in full lines manent floor. This strip acts as a meeting rail 7 5 in the drawings) is that of an ordinary open for the two pivoted sections. freight-car; but I have shown by dotted lines In some instances the shaft may run across in Fig. l a closed car to which my invention the car above the licor or on a level with the may be applied. floor and the pinions f may be mounted on 3o The stringers a of the car run the entire this shaft, dispensing with the pinion g. Se length, and in the center of the ear is a iixed Other means of operating the pivoted secfloor A', and under this iioor is mounted the tions may be used Without departing from air or steam brake cylinder and other iixed the main features of my invention. appliances of the car. By pivoting the sections as shown-#that is,

3 5 D D arepivoted sections hung to suitable placing the pivot midway or thereabout be- 85 pivots d d on the frame of the car. These tween the portions d' and cl2 of each sectionsections are formed, as shown in Fig. 5, hav- I utilize the coal above the sections d to ing a portion CZ extending entirely across the counterbalance the coal at the center of the car and portions d2 extending each side of the car, so that elaborate and cumbersome re- 4o fixed floor. Each section extends from one tainingmechanism forthesectionsisavoided, 9o end of the car to the middle and is provided and when the sections are in their normal po with, an end plate d3 and side plates d4. The sition the end portions are supported directly side plates work in ways in each side of the by the stringers and cross-bars of the carcar and are covered by plates a', so that parframe. y

45 ticlcs of coal cannot collect in the ways and I claim as my invention 95 prevent the operation of tilting. l. The combination of the car-body, con- E is a bar having brackets e e, by which it sisting of the sides, ends and longitudinal is secured to the under side of each tilting stringere, a lixed floor mounted upon the censection, as shown in Fig. 2, and on each end tral stringers, pivoted sections, each section 5o of the bar are segmental racks e, which enhaving a portion CZ extending across the car :roo

at one end thereof, and portions d2 extending from the portion d on each side of the fixed iioor, end and side plates for each section, with means for operating the pivoted sections, substantially as described.

2. The combination in a freight-car adapted to carry coal and merchandise having a level floor, the iixed car-body consisting of the sides, ends and longitudinal stringers, With tWo floor-sections, transverse pivots for each section, end plates and side plates secured to each section, the side plates extending to a point near the pivot, with cover-plates a secured to the fixed sides of the car-body and overlappin g the side plates of the pivoted sections, and means for operating the sections so that the entire contents of the car can be discharged at the center, substantially as described.

3. The combination in afreight-car adapted to carry coal and merchandise having alevel floor, of the fixed car-body consisting of the sides, ends and longitudinal stringers7 tWo pivoted door-sections extending from side to side of the car and having end and side plates, a transverse bar E secured to the under side of each section, segmental racks e on the ends of the said bar and extending outside of the carbody, a transverse shaft G geared to the said racks and means for turning the shaft so that the pivoted floor-sections can be tilted to discharge the contents, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY J. SCHMICK. iVitnesses:

WILL A. BARR, FRANK E. BEoHToLD. 

